Sitting and standing all day are both bad, which leaves lying down as the best option, which is what I’ve been saying for years.

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

If you want to support literature in Australia but can’t buy books during this economic crisis, don’t forget libraries. Buying is always better for author and industry, but we also get paid when books are borrowed. (Last year I got enough library royalties for 4 mths rent 😮😭👏🏾)

I’ve started as the consumer affairs reporter at Guardian Australia. It’s the first time the The Guardian has had someone covering this round in Australia, so if you have any story ideas or know of issues we should be covering, please get in touch! [email protected]

Many QLD’ers worked hard to get a Truth & Healing process up & running. Imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have spent decades opening hearts & minds, achieving bipartisanship, only to have it ended by Crisafulli’s LNP’s choice to promote ignorance & lies instead.

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RIP Quincy Jones

ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @NYTimes management.

Thank you to everyone honoring our NYT Games picket line and breaking your Wordle streaks! We're so grateful that made you a strike game! Play today's union-friendly connections here: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-OAxFXBC7…

I wrote about being a big ol' music nerd and then losing my hearing for Guardian Australia theguardian.com/music/2024/nov…

Have you had a rent increase this year? Was it big? can we chat about it? Lookin for someone to talk to for a story coming out next week. Thank you !

omg i know the guardian has left twitter but at least they could post my cartoon about the guardian leaving twitter on twitter! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

ANDREW WILKIE: "I've realised I was wrong and changed my mind." "Social media for many young people is a place to build community and ensure they don’t feel alone, and may be the only place some feel safe seeking support." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For the girls theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

They’re going to appoint someone else for show, but make no mistake: Pope Francis chose his true successor, Patricia Lockwood

Today's column is about a bunch of things, including the absurd Coalition reactions to defeat and the absurd hysteria about the $3m super tax changes. But the most important point I think is that it's possible we've come to exaggerate the difficulty of reform.